A 300-pound guy with a good shooting eye who's sitting behind a bush can be just as effective as a track star. Physical attributes aren't that important. "A good paintball player is a team player who works well with others. That stuff only works in the movies," he said. "The type of player who goes out there too aggressively and says, `I'm going to take on the world and win' usually doesn't do too well. Other people play paintball."Ĭolby said the so-called Rambo wannabe types actually fare poorly in paintball. Some people play golf or softball or touch football or bowl. It's a bunch of people having fun and enjoying the fresh air. It's a game of tag, really, but there's also strategy involved, so it's like a chess match. A minivan will pull up with a mother driving and six or seven kids from Glenview or Libertyville will jump out, and they'll play paintball all day. It's a very comfortable atmosphere for everyone.
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There are a lot of professional types who play, high school and college guys, women, older men, whatever. "Some people think we're a bunch of Rambo types," he said. Paintball also is played in 25 other countries.Ĭolby said paintballers and their sport are sometimes misunderstood. A $100-million industry has sprung up to provide guns, ammunition and accessories since the first paintball game was played in New Hampshire in 1981. There are about 1 million regular paintballers in the United States who play at 1,000 facilities from coast to coast, according to the Los Angeles-based International Paintball Players Association. Highway 41, two miles north of Illinois Highway 132. The final training session was held Wednesday.Paintballers watch for the weather-beaten Paintball Blitz sign on the east side of U.S. “So forever will that be attached to Mount Vernon Police Department, Knox County, and Rex Young, that officers around the state are going to train in scenarios he wrote.” DeChant added. OPOTA, according to DeChant, turned around and asked if they could use the programs Corporal Young wrote. Rex read through those, he actually authored some (scenarios), sent them on to the state to be approved.” “Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) put a catalog together of different scenarios for this program. “I have to give props to Rex.” Detective J.T. There were a total of 12 different scenarios, from active shooting incidents to de-escalation of tense domestic disputes.Īlong with the catalog of scenarios presented by the Attorney General’s Office, Corporal Young authored some new scenarios that will become part of the training used throughout the state. The second scenario involved a traffic stop that escalated into an exchange of gunfire. Two of the training scenarios on display by the Mount Vernon Police Department detectives were an incident involving a man with a crowbar where the officer would deploy a taser. The guns did fire paintball-like bullets, but the paint in this case is mixed with a little soap, so it is easy to wash away. The different scenarios ranged from encounters that could be resolved without force, encounters that require de-escalation and encounters that would require various levels of force. Chris Holt with Siemens allowed the use of a building on the backside of the property, where the training could take place in a safe and controlled environment.
The training was completed in 90-minute blocks across all shifts to allow the officers to train while minimizing costs to their departments. We trained just short of 100 officers in that two week period.” Young added. Eight different agencies came to train with us over the last two weeks. “We actually extended the invitation to a lot of agencies throughout our county, and out to Utica as well. With all this equipment on loan, MVPD brought in police departments from Fredericktown, Danville, Martinsburg, Knox County Sheriff’s Office, Knox County Court/Probation Office and Mount Vernon Municipal Court Probation and even into Licking County. “All the marking guns they’re using, are very similar to the guns they carry on duty.” “They supply us with everything, including the paint rounds.” said Young. Except they’re not books, CDs or DVDs but training pistols, marking cartridges, training tasers, protective gear, and role-playing props. The STEP program is a little like checking a book out of the library.
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